The Christmas supply chain infographic
Managing seasons and public holidays is a never-ending task for retailers. To address this deficit, we have created an infographic illustrating how a successful Christmas supply chain should be managed.
Managing seasons and public holidays is a never-ending task for retailers. To address this deficit, we have created an infographic illustrating how a successful Christmas supply chain should be managed.
Over the years almost every single retail initiative has had forecasting and replenishment at its core.
Once you understand how much will be sold on each day, the next step is to guarantee that the demand can be fulfilled, and in case of any problems, what actions are needed to ensure smooth operations.
The more delivery options you offer the more complex the supply chain becomes, and that complexity also has implications for the planning side of things.
With the rise of e-commerce many traditional retailers have established an online channel to complement their core businesses.
As almost every etailer and retailer with an online operations knows all too well, product returns are a costly headache that simply have to be taken care of.
Bringing product view or customer behaviour data from website into your supply chain planning and analytics tool can be very useful.
Traditional inventory management limits as to what you can sell, and what you can’t, no longer apply in e-commerce.
I’m often asked how online retail affects supply chain planning. Although the basic rules are the same, there are indeed a number of differences.
One of the most established assumptions in inventory management is that stock holding needs to rise steeply as you increase availability.
Supply chain planning is particularly challenging for mid-market retailers encountering all the same complexities as big retailers.
In this whitepaper we take a look at how to optimize for the holiday season and draw lessons for year-round seasonal management.
In this white paper we will take an overview of the building blocks of successful forecasting and replenishment implementations for fresh goods.
At RELEX we’ve collated information from more than a dozen of our large customers about how they have chosen to organize their replenishment.
As sales fluctuate significantly day to day, precision with fresh food is only possible through accurate daily forecasting and daily replenishment.
In the food sector the longest holiday forecast period is that for Christmas and New Year, where successive holidays make maintaining supply chain efficiency quite challenging.
Spoilage reduction is the single most effective measure we know of that clients can take to boost their profits.
Supply chain integration is about knitting together operations of two or more companies via an integrated IT system. Learn how this can be done wisely.
Many large companies have been held back by large scale software projects that have gone wrong. Our agile approach however seems to work for us and our customers.
Particularetail trade companies, that often control both stores and warehouses themselves, no longer have any excuse for letting POS data gather dust in the stores’ till systems.
Clients thinking of automating their replenishment processes often ask me what potential problems they should be alert to when changing their systems.
Increasing automation in replenishment generally produces positive results. It doesn’t, however, make your replenishment managers redundant.
This article focuses on stock replenishment from the perspective of department store operations. The opportunities for improved efficiency are often great.
At the best times managing a spare parts supply chain is a challenge, at worst it can feel like an impossible task.